From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 4 17:44:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA19168 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 17:44:09 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA19160 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 17:44:02 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA28370; Tue, 5 Dec 1995 12:16:18 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512051216.MAA28370@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint To: rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 12:16:18 +0000 () Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, peter@taronga.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Bob Bishop" at Dec 4, 95 09:18:52 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1266 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Bob Bishop stands accused of saying: > >80 bytes to a card, IIRC. > > I can see you're too young to have dropped a big deck! Try allocating a > couple of bytes per card for a sequence number :-) Ack, all the old farts pop out again! (and the knurrs from der voodverk came) It would appear that we actually have low-density and high-density cards; can we support both, or do we need seperate boot-decks? (FWIW the only card-sorting hardware I've ever met used a seperate set of printed sequence marks on the card. I presume that if you dropped the deck after cutting it but before getting the sequence codes printed on it that it would be a good day to go home early... Unfortunately I can't verify this as all that's left of the sorter is now my desk at home. Ah for the days when computers had woodwork 8) > Bob Bishop (01734) 774017 international code +44 1734 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[